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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">Dear IT Teacher<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">Deakin University and Swinburne University of Technology are pleased to offer you the opportunity to send one of your teachers to a fully funded residential workshop geared towards broadening
participation in ICT by building teachers' technical capacity. This opportunity is possible through the generous sponsorship provided by Google through their CS4HS (Computer Science for High Schools) program.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">Participants in the workshop, through hands-on experience, will be exposed to a student-led 4 week <i>AppInventor</i> module of work. This module has been successfully trialled in
two metropolitan schools with the support of a small grant from the Australian Council of Deans of ICT (ACDICT). The lesson plans are flexible and teachers have the ability to adjust them for middle school or senior students.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">Additionally teachers will be provided with an overview of materials (lesson plans, student work examples and teaching instructions) created through an Australian Research Council
Grant “Digital Divas Club (2009-2011)” which focused on increasing gender diversity in ICT. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">We invite you to nominate </span><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">one</span></u><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "> teacher
to attend this residential workshop that will be held at Deakin Management Centre, Deakin University, Geelong 3217 (<a href="http://www.managementcentre.com.au/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.managementcentre.com.au/</a>) on
Friday 6<sup>th</sup></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">and<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span><span style="color: black; ">Saturday
7th September</span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span><span style="color: black; ">.</span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span>The teacher who would gain the most from this workshop would most likely be teaching ICT to a year 7,8,
9 or 10 class, not necessarily have a background method in ICT but is enthusiastic about its possibilities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">Teachers will be required to bring their own laptops. We will supply Android phones for instructional purposes. All meals and accommodation costs are covered in the grant, as well
as teaching support materials that the participants can take home.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">To minimise disruption to your timetable, we will begin the workshop at 4pm on Friday 6th of September and continue through to 5pm on Saturday 7th September.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">Places are capped at 20, so please respond with the teacher's details (name and email) as soon as possible and no later than <b><u>12 August, via email to: <a href="mailto:acraig@deakin.edu.au" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">acraig@deakin.edu.au</a></u></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">Successful participants will be notified by 16 August. We will then finalise the communication and planning with the individual nominated teachers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">Many thanks</span></p>
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Christy Kosch<o:p></o:p></p>
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Manager, Marketing and Communications<o:p></o:p></p>
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Swinburne University of Technology<o:p></o:p></p>
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e: <a href="mailto:ckosch@swin.edu.au" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">ckosch@swin.edu.au</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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p: (03) 9214 4750</p>
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